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Merleau-Ponty on Causality

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“Merleau-Ponty on Causality” attempts to reveal Merleau-Ponty’s treatment of causality with respect to the physical, the vital, and the human. The philosophy of causality of both Hume and Mill will be briefly addressed and challenged. Special attention will be paid to Merleau-Ponty’s treatment of causality with respect to human behavior.

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Notes

  1. I have discussed some of what is presented here in a number of other published works dealing with Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy, although all of my comments here relating directly to Merleau-Ponty’s insights concerning causality are new.

  2. Obviously, I offer this as an example of a type of hypothesis construction in psychology and not as an appeal to the most relevant current research.

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Low, D. Merleau-Ponty on Causality. Hum Stud 38, 349–367 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-015-9358-0

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